High and low implementers of content literacy instruction: Portraits of teacher efficacy

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1739-1750

  Cantrell, Susan Chambers ^a   Callaway, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Content literacy; Literacy; Professional development; Teacher education teacher efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 48649094735     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.02.020     Document Type: Article

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